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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sam offer to do?
(a) Take Henry to a tree surgeon.
(b) Take care of Henry so Rowena can go to the party.
(c) Take care of Henry so Rowena can go to the zoo.
(d) Take care of Henry so Rowena can take her brother to the park.

2. When does Adam have to go back to school?
(a) After the summer in a couple months.
(b) As soon as exams start the next week.
(c) The next morning.
(d) After the three-day weekend.

3. What does Adam doubt about Uncle Poot?
(a) That he can build a better dam than Adam.
(b) That he will arrive this time since he did not last time.
(c) That he really knows anything about engineering.
(d) That he can actually dowse for water.

4. What does Adam's father refuse to do?
(a) Built a holding pond for rain water.
(b) Let Adam go to school.
(c) Let Adam consult a well digger about a new well.
(d) Get water from a spring on a neighboring farm.

5. What does Pa say when he comes in from the cornfield?
(a) That the corn has withered up.
(b) That the crows ate most of the corn.
(c) That a hole Pa dug spouted water.
(d) That mice are numerous in the corn field.

6. According to the title of Tale 3, Part 1, what is everywhere?
(a) Water.
(b) Problems.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

7. Of what is Adam convinced?
(a) He'll be hauling water forever.
(b) He does not want to be a farmer.
(c) He does not want to go to school.
(d) He can fix the problem with the well.

8. What is the situation when Adam wakes the next morning?
(a) The house is surrounded by water.
(b) His father has driven the wagon out of the valley.
(c) His parents are in a boat tied the front porch.
(d) The water has all receded.

9. Upon whom has Rowena come to rely?
(a) Her father.
(b) Adam.
(c) Polly.
(d) Sam.

10. Who is at Adam's house when he arrives with the wagon?
(a) His older sister who is at college.
(b) Uncle Poot.
(c) His older brother who is on leave from the Navy.
(d) No one.

11. What does someone say about how the water problem might have been caused?
(a) The reservoir has overflowed.
(b) The dam upriver has sprung a leak.
(c) Magic.
(d) Floods from melting snow.

12. What is Adam, Polly and Rowena's mental state?
(a) Excited.
(b) Jovial.
(c) Angry.
(d) Desperate.

13. Why does Adam have to go down to the river regularly?
(a) To collect river rocks to build a pool.
(b) To work on a dam he is building to divert water to the fields.
(c) To fish for his family's meals.
(d) To haul water.

14. What does Adam promise his mother to do?
(a) Work harder in school.
(b) Be nicer to his young cousin who is staying with them.
(c) Be nicer to his youngest brother who sometimes pesters Adam.
(d) Help her set up a flower garden.

15. What is in the pair of pants that Adam hangs in the closet?
(a) Blinn's card.
(b) A few coins.
(c) A pipe and tobacco.
(d) A wad of dollar bills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rowena tell Sam and Henry?

2. What does Rowena say to Sam about Henry?

3. How does Adam's Pa react to the wish Adam made?

4. What is Pa trying to keep safe?

5. What does Adam think is unfair?

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